Uwe Rosler has urged Leeds United's notoriously impatient fans to look beyond the results as the Whites' are yet to win a pew-season game.

After drawing with Harrogate Town and York City, Leeds lost 2-1 to both Eintract Frankfurt and Hoffenheim on tour last week. Leeds now face the tall-order of beating Mersey giants Everton on Saturday before the curtain-raiser against Burnley on August 8th, if they are to avoid a morale-sapping winless pre-season programme.

However according to Uwe Rosler this time of year isn't just about results. Speaking on the official LUFC website, Rosler argued “We have been working on more football-specific fitness, around roles and responsibilities for certain positions. We’re preparing for 10 months. The Burnley game is a very important one but it’s not our last game. We have to understand that we have to be where we want to be in May 2016."

I would agree with Rosler, you can't read too much into "friendlies" and by all accounts against Hoffenheim in particular we were excellent during the first-half against a reasonable, full-strength Bundisliga side. However there always has to be that worry with our notoriously impatient President Massimo Cellino.

I joked to a former work-colleague a few weeks back that we Leeds fans never really turn on our managers these days as Massimo normally removes them before we lose patience. I suppose the wacky Italian should be credited for at least bringing in someone with some good experience of the English game as both player and head coach after last years disastrous appointments of "the Hock" and "Darko".

There is always the worry that Massimo will impulsively interfere with matters on the pitch. The treatment of Neil Redfearn, who Cellino called "a baby" was disgraceful and undermining, the watershed being the suspension and sacking of Redder's Assistant Steve Thompson after the pair had pulled the club away from the drop-zone.

With Rosler being told promotion isn't a target next-season, let's hope the German can start to build the foundations of stability and a realistic shot at it in 2016/17. Hopefully both the fans and the owner will stay-off his back.

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